A Contribution to the Morphology and Phylogeny of Chlamydodon,with Three New Species from China (Ciliophora,Cyrtophoria) |
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| Authors: | Zhishuai Qu Hongbo Pan Xiaofeng Lin Lifang Li Abdullah Mohammad A Aleidan Saleh A Al‐Farraj Thorsten Stoeck Xiaozhong Hu |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China;2. Department of Ecology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany;3. College of Fisheries and Life Science, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China;4. College of Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China;5. Marine College, Shandong University, Weihai, China;6. Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
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| Abstract: | Three new cyrtophorian ciliates isolated from coastal areas of China were described based on morphological and genetic data. The Chlamydodon mnemosyne‐like species Chlamydodon similis sp. n. differs from its congeners mainly by its number of somatic kineties. Chlamydodon oligochaetus sp. n. is distinguished from its congeners mainly by having fewer somatic kineties, and/or an elongated body shape. Chlamydodon crassidens sp. n. is characterized mainly by an inverted triangular body shape, a posteriorly interrupted cross‐striated band (5–6 μm wide), and a large cytostome. Moreover, we provided small‐subunit (SSU) rDNA sequences of C. similis sp. n. and C. oligochaetus sp. n. Maximum likelihood (ML) and Bayesian inference (BI) consistently placed C. similis sp. n. as a sister to C. paramnemosyne, but showed different branching position of C. oligochaetus sp. n., which may be due to a low taxon sampling in the Chlamydodontidae and/or an insufficient resolution of the marker gene at species level. |
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| Keywords: | Cyrtophorians
SSU rDNA
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